[单项选择]Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage. Who’s poor in America That’s a question hard to answer. Hard because there’s no conclusive definition of poverty. Low income matters, though how low is unclear. Poverty is also a state of mind that fosters self-defeating behavior-bad work habits, family breakdowns, and addictions. Finally, poverty results from bad luck: accidents, job losses, disability. Despite poverty’s messiness, we’ve measured progress against it by a single statistic: the federal poverty line. By this measure, we haven’t made much progress. But the apparent lack of progress is misleading for two reasons. First, it ignores immigration. Many immigrants are poor and low-skilled. They add to the poor. From 1989 to 2007, about three quarters of the increase in the poverty population occurred among Hispanics（西班牙裔美国人）-mostly immigrants and their children. Second, the poor’s material well-being has improved. The official poverty measure obscures this by counting
A. It defines poverty by the gap between the rich and the poor.
B. It raises the threshold for the poor to get welfare benefits.
C. It is more accurate and scientific in terms of statistics.
D. It truly reflects the practical needs of the poor.

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